Twitter is an educational technology that has the potential to improve teaching and help instructors meet learning goals by:
Engaging students and improving engagement
Expanding and diversifying resources for instructors and learners
Increasing student-instructor and student-to-student interaction
Acting as a research tool
Ways to incorporate Twitter in teaching include:
Designing safe and private methods for students to engage
Creating course-specific hashtags
Formulating assignments and low-stakes assessments
Using hashtags to organize and review course material and student work